Karan Saxena

Prof. R Kumar Student Travel Award (Winter 2025) – Awarded for research on hair-dye-inspired Point-of-Care diagnostics presented at the Gordon Research Conference and Seminar (GRC and GRS) on Physics and Chemistry of Microfluidics, 2025, Italy

K Ananth Swamy Memorial Research Award 2025 – for most impactful research carried out by a PhD student at the Department of Chemical Engineering, IISc during the session 2024-’25.

Won Get Down Under Video Contest on LinkedIn for MicroTAS 2025 conference

 Lakshmi & Aravamudan Travel Grant, Office of Development and Alumni Affairs, IISc – Rs. 75,000 travel grant for attending Gordon Research Seminar and Conference on Physics & Chemistry of Microfluidics 2025, Italy

 Invited Speaker, Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Physics and Chemistry of Microfluidics 2025 – Selected as one of only two students worldwide to deliver a talk at the GRC following the People's Choice Best Oral Presentation Award win at the preceding GRS in Lucca, Italy.

People’s Choice Best Oral Presentation Award at Physics and Chemistry of Microfluidics Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) 2025 at Lucca, Italy. 

CBMS Student Travel Grant worth $1000 for MicroTAS 2024 Conference

LMIC Travel Grant for MicroTAS 2024 Conference

 Kumar-Gandhi Award for best oral presentation in ChemE @ IISc Symposium 2023

NPTEL Course Topper: Experimental Biochemistry (April 2023)

AIChE Donald F. and Mildred Topp Othmer Scholarship, 2020: A $1000 scholarship awarded to 15 AIChE Undergraduate Members worldwide.

 First prize in AIChE ChemE Safe Design Competition, AIChE South Asia Regional Student Conference, 2020

AIChE International Student Leadership Development Travel Grant, 2019

Silver Medal and Award of Academic Excellence, Chemical Engineering for securing 2nd position (CGPA 9.24) in Chemical Engineering, NIT Rourkela for year 2018-’19.